AAAA Records

AAAA is a domain address record, that's essentially the IPv6 address of the server where the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the present IPv4 system where every single Internet protocol address is made up of 4 groups of decimal numbers between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In comparison, an IPv6 address includes 8 sets of 4 hexadecimal numbers - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason for this modification is the significantly smaller number of unique IPs that the existing system supports and also the speedy increase of units that are connected to the Internet. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you wish to point a domain to a web server that uses such an address, you'll have to set up an AAAA record for it, and not the widely used A record, which is an IPv4 address. The two records deliver the very same function, but different notations are used, in order to distinguish the two types of addresses.

If you would like to set up a new AAAA record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your cloud hosting account, it won't take you more than a couple of simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is extremely intuitive to use and is going to permit you to set up or change every single record with ease. When you log in and navigate to the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all present records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you will just have to click the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down options menu inside the pop-up that'll show up, type or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as easy as that. The new record shall be fully live within only an hour and the hostname that you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If needed, you'll also be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds that the new record will be live after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply remove it.

Setting up a new AAAA record is very easy using our user-friendly Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you host a domain name inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you want such a record either for it or for a subdomain which you have created under it, you're going to be able to create it within a few quite simple steps and without any hassle. Hepsia has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains where you can find all current records or create new ones with a couple of clicks. All it takes to do that is to choose the domain/subdomain that you would like to edit, choose AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and input the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address the other company has given you. Within an hour after you save the change, the new record is going to propagate world-wide and your domain name will start forwarding to the third-party hosting server. If they need it, you can even change the TTL value, which shows the time this record will be active with its existing value before a new one takes over if you make any changes in the future.